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Muslim Brotherhood

Society of the Muslim Brothers
Leader Mohamed Badie
Spokesperson Gehad el-Haddad
Founded 1928
Ismailia, Egypt
Headquarters Cairo, Egypt
Ideology Sunni Islamism
Pan-Islamism
Right-wing populism
Anti-zionism
Political position Third Position
House of the People (Afghanistan)
39 / 249
Council of Representatives of Bahrain
2 / 40
People's Representative Council (Indonesia)
40 / 560
Council of Representatives of Iraq
4 / 325
Parliament of Lebanon
1 / 128
National Assembly (Mauritania)
16 / 146
Palestinian Legislative Council
74 / 132
National Assembly of Sudan
323 / 354
Assembly of the Representatives of the People (Tunisia)
69 / 217
House of Representatives (Yemen)
46 / 301
Party flag
Flag of the Muslim Brotherhood (2).png
Website
www.ikhwanonline.com
www.ikhwanweb.com

The Society of the Muslim Brothers (Arabic: جماعة الإخوان المسلمين‎‎ Jamāʻat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn), shortened to the Muslim Brotherhood (الإخوان المسلمون al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn), is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928. The organisation gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups such as Hamas with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work", and in 2012 sponsored the elected political party in Egypt after the January Revolution in 2011. However, it suffered from periodic government crackdowns for alleged terrorist activities, and as of 2015 is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain,Egypt, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.

The Brotherhood's stated goal is to instill the Quran and the Sunnah as the "sole reference point for ... ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community ... and state". Its mottos include "Believers are but Brothers", "Islam is the Solution", and "Allah is our objective; the Qur'an is the Constitution; the Prophet is our leader; jihad is our way; death for the sake of Allah is our wish".

It is financed by members, who are required to allocate a portion of their income to the movement, and was for many years financed by Saudi Arabia, with whom it shared some enemies and some points of doctrine.


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